The only person who might have felt more pain last night at Viejas Arena than Cal State Fullerton coach Bob Burton, whose team was on pace to finish with 35 turnovers midway through the first half, was the fan sitting courtside with a large cup of coffee, casually chatting with his date.

The Titans chucked another errant pass to the ghost of a teammate, and the ball sailed out of bounds into the courtside seats, spilling the coffee into his lap.

But the Aztecs (7-2) will do that to you at Viejas Arena, which is rapidly becoming a house of horrors for opposing teams. Counting exhibitions, SDSU has played here six times this season. Won by 15, 33, 25, 33, 41 and last night’s 82-68 clash against the Titans.

It would have been another 30-point win had the Aztecs made some free throws (they were a beyond-embarrassing 13-of-32 and at one point missed seven straight). But who needs accuracy from the line when Kawhi Leonard will just grab the offensive rebound anyway?

The 6-foot-7 freshman from Riverside showed why he was the California prep Player of the Year and why many think he may be in the NBA before he's a junior, grabbing nine rebounds to go with 11 points, two steals and two assists.

That was in the first half.

Leonard finished with 23 points and 18 rebounds, including an audacious 10 on the offensive end. It was the second-best rebounding performance in the 12-year history of Viejas Arena and the most by an SDSU freshman since Michael Cage had 20 in 1981.

“I'm feeling more confident due to the experience and playing more games,” said Leonard, who had seven fewer rebounds than the entire Fullerton team. “The first game, I really didn't know how the competition was going to be.”

Added SDSU coach Steve Fisher: “Big hands, long arms and he pursues every shot that goes up. I'm hopeful this will not be his career high for rebounding.”

Fisher is also hopeful this is the valley of the team's free-throw shooting woes. The Aztecs entered the game shooting 61.1 percent from the line, worst among Mountain West Conference teams and 309th out of 330 NCAA Division I schools.

Last night's effort — Fisher called it “abysmal” — drops them to 57.5 percent. Only five of 330 Div. I schools are worse.

“I think we didn't want to be the next guy to miss a free throw,” Fisher said. “You can't think that way. You have to step to the line and know it's going in and be shocked if it doesn't. But I'm not worried about the free-throw shooting.”

Fisher said the same thing about the team's poor three-point accuracy before last night's game. Sure enough, the Aztecs shot 7-of-14 behind the arc (including a banked-in three by Tyrone Shelley) and forced the undersized Titans to play more man-to-man defense than Burton probably wanted, creating some sizable mismatches.